Thursday morning 5.35 there are 18 members signed in 10 are spammers and 8 have already been banned and this is every day. The problem is we can ban members but we can't delete them from the forum so there still on the membership list and can sign in when ever they like. Deleted all of the accounts with .vn e-mail addresses; they're all spammers and that's fine but that's only a small percentage, what about all the others. You have at least one third of the membership here that are spammers, you have a number of members registered as many as two to six different times. The thing is one spammer breeds more spammers and it's only getting worse daily and it's to the point of the forum being flooded with spammers.
Riddle me this, if the spam accounts are banned, how are they able to log/sign in? Why can't you delete them permanently? You need to make it to the point where they can't come back to datamine this place day after day. The scorched earth policy wins in the end and its going to take a year to get there.
You need to ban the following countries: Vietnam, Bangledesh, India, China & Pakistan. VN to save LMF from going over the edge and the other 4 countries for spite.
LMF in its current state is probably 6-12 months from teetering over the edge to becoming a full-blown spam site. There will come a point in time all you can do is pull the plug, honeypot the current forum and start over.
Right now just to keep up, you need someone that all they do is go through
every single new account as they join. Check every IP and if its in the least bit questionable, ban it. Every email address. If the email belongs to a good IP but the email address has been reported as spam, ban because the email address is most likely stolen. Check usernames. Cross verify usernames with the email address. There are programs out there that collect email addresses per username. Background checks on everything. Ban/Report/Ban/Report. 24/7
